Princess Mononoke: war, peace and respect

I’m ending my practicum…and I’m learning a lot…Now I can say I’m delighted with this experience…Today I’ve prepared an audiovisual activity using a piece of Mononoke Princess film and it has been great. First I started with a little explanation ‘bout what we were going to see and a little bit of Japanese culture to understand the allegories. It’s about love, war, peace and respect and I find it’s a good film to make children understand that the real world is not a sweet candy and that it’s important to learn how to coexist with other cultures.

I really recommend you this film but I have to warn you…select the scenes because there is a lot of blood. Well instead of this film you can use another Gibbling Studio’s movie. Here you've got the trailer:

At the end of the activity I was surprised because one of my students told me that he considered the piece I've played wasn't the appropriate to summarize the movie’s message…the fact is that he isn’t a very good student but…wow!! It was great to see how he was trying to argue his opinion.

At the end we’ve played an “I agree, I disagree or neutral” game (guided opinion) to complete the lesson with a communicative activity. They were trying to explain their opinions and why they agreed or not with the affirmations I’ve prepared ‘bout the film.